LostXOR

Why did they put that button in such an annoying spot to press? If you’re going to add a pointless button at least put it on the thumb side, like almost every other mouse in existence.

I think that would be the current amount of water. Any water loss (or water gain for that matter) is going to cause massive problems worldwide.

“Rain bombs” such as Invest 90L are products of our hotter world; warmer air has more room between its molecules for moisture.

Lmao, did nobody review this?

I’m not sure what you’re talking about in that case, could you clarify?

I’m not sure about that, plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24k years and uranium-235’s is far longer.

Then again, theres about 13 undiscovered, lost, still armed nuclear bombs that the Americans lost in test drops. Mostly dropped into oceans, they’ve been deteriorating away for 70ish years. Wherever they are an earthquake could set them off. Maybe an aggressive shark. The point is, there are 13 points which we KNOW at some point, will set off a WWII era atomic bomb. This will have an unknown outcome, 13 different times. Any one of which might end Earth. Or maybe it causes some tidal waves. No one knows.

This is completely wrong. Lost nuclear bombs are not going to be functional in the slightest after decades, as they require very precisely timed detonation of explosive charges to actually trigger the main fission reaction. They’re not like chemical bombs, which will explode with enough heat or pressure. And after decades the circuitry to control the explosive charges will be long dead.

According to this Stack Exchange answer, glass reflects around 4-100% of the UV in sunlight depending on the angle of incidence. So you could probably get a sunburn if the angle is low enough (like if the Sun is almost directly overhead and reflecting off a vertical window).

To be fair to them, that is pretty close to how immunity actually works. Not quite there though.

Would be interesting to set up email servers on some of the more popular instances and see how much traffic they’re actually getting.

No need for all these new-fangled tools when good ol’ dd does the job just fine. (Though they certainly reduce the chance of accidentally nuking the wrong disk).

Interesting, according to Wikipedia it’s only in an 800km orbit. I’m surprised it wasn’t detected sooner as it’s pretty big (66cm diameter).

Who needs private variables when you can generate cryptographically secure variable names? Much better security.

That’s too easy to filter out, use believable data at least. Seems like a great task for a language model!

Both “color” and “colour” are valid spellings.

It’s great, just give your cloud servers public IPs and you get tons of completely free vulnerability scans! This life hack has saved me tens of thousands of dollars in pentesting.

It’s completely insane that the tool would attempt to connect to a nonexistent bucket for backups by default instead of just… having them disabled completely?

Gotta review the 5 line PR ten times just to make absolutely totally sure there’s nothing wrong with it before submitting it.

Would be a bit hard to notice if you’re dead, but yeah (assuming you’re magically spared or something).

The main question is unanswerable as it couldn’t happen without fundamentally changing physics in some way. However, the other one is a lot more interesting.

On a large scale, one in ten atoms vanishing would decrease both the density and mass of most objects by 10%. This would also decrease their gravity by 10%, resulting in all orbits becoming significantly more (or less) eccentric. I imagine the changes would be enough to destabilize some solar systems, potentially causing planets to perturb each other’s orbits until they collide or end up being ejected from the system.

The change in density also means that gravitationally bound objects that are held up by internal pressure (like planets and stars) would collapse slightly as their internals are re-compressed to their original density. The collapse would release a lot of energy, heating up planets significantly and (just guessing here) maybe causing a burst of fusion in stars as they’re temporarily compressed past their equilibrium point.

All of that is pretty bad news for life on Earth, but the worst is what happens chemically. Some molecules are just going to become different molecules when one or more of their atoms disappears. Take water, for example; a water molecule has an 8.1% chance to become a hydrogen molecule, an 8.1% chance to become a (highly reactive) hydroxide ion, and a 0.9% chance to become a (highly reactive) single oxygen atom. 18% of nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the atmosphere would also become single atoms and promptly react violently. These molecular changes would instantly kill all life on Earth (and anywhere else). There’s simply no possible way for an organism to survive so many reactive molecules being introduced throughout itself. Not to mention that all DNA would be irreparably damaged from the random deletions too.

I’m sure there are some other effects that I haven’t thought of, but those are definitely the most noticeable ones.

Don’t fat-shame the acids!